The Color Management utility in Windows allows you to associate different color profiles for your various devices. These profiles affect how the device outputs color, and are used to help create uniform colors across all of your devices. Windows handles most color management functions on its own, but you can add profiles for your devices that may help in specific circumstances.

Steps

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Know when to change your color management settings. Windows' color management feature ensures that all of your devices display similar colors. This is necessary because different devices display color in different ways. Your printer and your monitor, for example, both produce color with very different methods. Color management ensures that these colors match up as closely as possible. Most users should not have to make adjustments to their color management settings.

You'll typically only need to adjust your color management settings if you have a device that comes with a specific color profile. Some devices may come with specialized profiles, and some may not. For example, a printer may have multiple color profiles for different types of paper. Many devices install their color profiles automatically.

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Download your new profile files. You'll need color profile files in order to add them to the Color Management utility. You may be able to find these on the device manufacturer's support page, or on enthusiast websites. Windows supports ICC, ICM and CDMP format files for color profiles.

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Open the Color Management tool. There are two main ways to quickly open this tool: